Stick-Control, Accents, and Articulation Technique – Spirit Music Meet-Ups
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The Spirit-Drums-Practice page has so many revealed techniques that will help you tremendously
See also General Techniques section of the Technique page
Video – Drums-Tech-Stick Control – Seat & drum height, body-limbs-stick position, grip, technique – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Video – Use your wrists and fingers
Video: Matched Grip holding the stick
Video – 22PWG: Find the Stick Fulcrum Balance Point for better Technique, Stick Control, and Speed
Video: Drums-Tech-Stick Control- Grip Technique + Rebound Strokes in groups of different countings
Video: Drums-Tech-Stick Control- Progressively longer counting of Rebound Strokes
Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Review of matched fulcrum & grip, and then finger exercises to build speed
Video – 22PWG: Stroke-Type Analysis for Rudiment Technique, Stick Control, Accents, Power, and Speed
Video: Gleaning from Intro to Drumstick Control by Jeff Moore – excellent teaching!
More to come!
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- 8’s going from 1/8 to 1/16s – U of A Drumline drills
Video: Drums-Tech-Stick Control- Progressively longer Single Strokes using 2 techniques
Video – 22PWG: Using Math Combos for Simple-Stroke Stick Control
Video: Drums-Tech-Stick Control- How to create & use Binary & Ternary Stick Control exercises
PDF doc: Comprehensive Binary (2, 4, 6, 8, etc. stroke) Stick Control – While you watch Videos Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5a, Part 5b, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, and Part 10
PDF doc: Comprehensive Ternary (3, 6, 9, 12, etc. stroke) Stick Control – While you watch Videos Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, and Part 10
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Kenny Aronoff – Hand exercises with different Foot Ostinatos
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Johnny Lee Lane – Snare Drum Stick Control
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Part 1 – Rick Latham – Heating up
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Part 2 – Rick Latham – Heating up
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Gordy Knudtson – Fun with Side-Triplets
Accents & Articulation Technique:
PDF doc: 41-page Short Course on Accents using Rhythms from around the World – While you watch Videos Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Video – 22PWG: Pumping the 1/8 notes in Rock and Shuffles to hear a louder 1/4-note Beats
Video: Drum-Tech – Accents using Moeller 1, 2, 3, 4 Strokes with Single Fill-ins
Video: Drum-Tech – Accents using Moeller 1, 2, 3, 4 Strokes with Doubles & Triples Fill-ins
Video: pg 8 Gleaning from Drumstick Control, Jeff Moore – 2, 3, 4-stroke Bucks
Video: pg 10 Gleaning from Drumstick Control, Jeff Moore – Accent Singles builders with Pumping
Video – 22PWG: Para and Side-Triplet Turnaround Accents
Video: Dynamics, Articulation/Accents, and Buildups
Video: Dead-sticking & Hand-muting for quieter Muted tones vs. louder Open Tones, plus pitch-bending
Video: Stick & Mallet Muting, Dead-Sticking, Bamboo/Rods Sticks, Palito (thin-sticks)
Video: RH full-stroke beats, LH tap-stroke off-beats
Video: RH tap-stroke beats, LH full-stroke off-beats
Video: 1-bar RH “beat” to 1-bar LH “offbeat” accents
Video: Transition from RH “beat” to LH “offbeat” accents
Video: 1/16-note Samba R l r L
Video: 1/16-note Samba L r l R
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Ed Soph – 2nd stroke accents of Subdivisions of Time
Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Gleaning from U of A Drumline Basic Strokes
More to come!
Video: 2-6 Stroke Velocity Moeller Studies
Video – Use relaxed bursts of Single-Strokes to build speed
Video: Moeller 4-Stroke Velocity Exercise
Video – 22PWG: 1-hand Multiple-Bounce Combos – Part 1 – 2-8 Strokes + Feet before, after, or both
Video – 22PWG: 1-hand Multiple-Bounce Combos – Part 2 – 2-8 Strokes + Feet before, after, or both
More to come!
The Feet can be added under the Hands “non-linearly” like a chord or between the Hands “linearly” like a melody:
See Technique – Foot Control for specifics of Bass-Drum and Hi-Hat control
See also: PDF doc: Melodic rhythm vs. Ostinato rhythms in a Drum-Set Groove – While you watch the Video
The Comprehensive Binary and Ternary PDF Docs and Videos above have detailed sections on how to add the Feet
More to come!
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